Okay, a year to the date after my last Spring application I've applied more Wow! Supreme to the front yard. I applied 1 20# bag plus the remainder of another bag, about 12#. The exact correct amount to apply to get 1# of N per 1000 square feet is 27.5#, so I applied a bit more, but that's okay since I should get better weed control. Also, in the Fall I skipped applying fertilizer to one area I thought I was going to reseed. I never got around to it and that area is looking especially pathetic so I tried to get it a bit extra. Can't wait for things to green up! We should have rain all weekend, so that ought to settle it in.
I'm out of Wow for the moment and haven't applied any to the backyard yet. I do have some regular old fertilizer I should probably use up, so maybe I'll go that route. I think Gardens Alive! is having a sale right now on WOW though, so I do plan to stock up. Also, I will take some photos of the backyard once things green up so I can see how my grass seeding worked out. I did manage to grow some grass, so that's better than nothing I guess.
Also, I raked the yard clean prior to fertilizing and mowed over a ton of leaves to shred them for bean mulch. I also picked up a ton of sticks. Pretty much a full days worth of yard work. I think I started at 12:30 or so and it's now almost 7 - so a long day out in the yard, but it was a balmy 60 degrees, so that made it okay. I look forward to getting around to fertilizing the back yard and then eventually doing a serious mulch job, as well as finishing leaf pick-up and shredding and clearing leaves out of my bed. A gardener's work is never done!
Friday, February 27, 2009
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